fête des Mères
\fɛt de mɛʁ\
The verdict
“fête des Mères” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fête annuelle où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur mère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête des Mères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt de mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fête des Mères” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fête des Mères is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛt de mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fête annuelle où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur mère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fête des Mères, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fête des Mères, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -M-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Fête annuelle où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur mère.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fête des Mères”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -M-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.